Backintime default profile creates an invalid entry in anacrontab

[Philip Collins]

(KDE4 gui)

When using the default profile with anacron scheduling, the resultant line in anacrontab contains the profile name (“Main profile”) including the space. This space causes the system to interpret the word “profile” as a command and consequently terminate with an error. The expected backup does not then take place.

My work-around is to manually edit anacrontab to replace the space with an underscore character. All is then well, and backups proceed perfectly.

Of course, whenever I amend settings via the GUI it breaks again, and I have to reapply the fix.

I presume (although I haven't tested) that any user-created profile name that incorporates space characters will also provoke this failure.

[Germar (germar)]

Damn it. I didn't think of spaces and tested only with de locale where 'Main profile' is translated to 'Hauptprofil'. Sorry. I'll fix it.

[Germar (germar)]

Until next version you can patch with 'sudo patch /usr/share/backintime/common/config.py config.diff'

[Philip Collins (pa-collins)]

Wow -that was fast work, Germar! Many thanks for the patch.